I think the info on oils is too new yet to be widely used and accepted. I just tried it for the first time. I think most people are in the same boat... Gerry Visel [log in to unmask] On Thu, 10 Oct 1996 16:41:30 -0400 David Eyre <[log in to unmask]> writes: >>Phil Wood wrote on Essential Oils. > >>Curiously, I didn't hear much from folks since the original posting >>here. Does this mean that everyone is quietly going out and buying >the >>oils and seeing what will happen? >>Or is this a new idea with promising preliminary results? > >I don't think anything is amiss. The list seems to be very 'Ho Hmm' >regarding new innovations I said at the time things seem to go down >like >lead balloons. It will only be when their favourite academic or >extension >officer has done all the testings allover again that they might >condiscend >to try it out. It would appear that most bee keepers do not like >change. >One even told me my ideas couldn't be any good, because no body had >thought >of it before me!!!! > Wait and see, the cry will go up 'it doesn't work' only >because some >one isn't using it properly!! But thats another post!! > > **************************************************** > * David Eyre 9 Progress Drive, Unit 2, * > * The Beeworks, Orillia, Ontario, L3V 6H1. * > * [log in to unmask] 705-326-7171 * > * http://www.muskoka.net/~beeworks * > * Agents for: E H Thorne & B J Sherriff UK. * > **************************************************** >